History of IDEA
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Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Obama knows best, part 2: "Too often we are using these tests to punish students or schools."
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Blog by Anthony Cody/Education Week
Last Monday, President Obama went off script at a town hall meeting, and in response to a question from student Luis Ayala, offered us a vision for education. In 338 words, he made it clear that current Department of Education policy is way out of line with what he knows is best for his own daughters, and for students across the nation. After I expressed this view in my blog Monday night, Justin Hamilton, a press secretary for Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, wrote to me and requested that I correct my post, providing me with his official interpretation of what the President meant to say. I then sent him four questions. He has answered three of them, and in this post I offer my thoughts on his response to my second question. (more...)
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